WGA Strike Roundtable: Writers Say TV Is ‘Broken, and We’re Reinventing It Poorly’

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Writers Guild of America is settling in for a strike that could last weeks if not months. But Kay Cannon, creator of the “Pitch Perfect” film trilogy and member of the guild’s negotiating committee, feels that her union is ready for what lies ahead. “This is different than the 2007 strike,” Cannon said during a roundtable video discussion with TheWrap. “It’s much more emotional.

I feel like we’re so united on this fight. We had a big meeting last night at the Shrine [Auditorium] that I don’t know if you guys were there or not, but it was incredible.

We had every every union…and it was one of the most emotional, amazing experiences that I’ve ever been a part of.”Cannon was joined in the roundtable by “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” star/creator Rachel Bloom, “X-Men: First Class” screenwriter Zack Stentz, and “Star Trek: Picard” supervising producer Marc Bernardin, the latter of whom lamented that “TV is broken…and we’re reinventing it poorly.” The four talked about their frustrations with they see as a decaying status quo in Hollywood, where the financial stability that writers were able to enjoy once their got their foot in the door in the industry is rapidly vanishing into a new normal where they are struggling to make ends meet even when they are doing just as much work. “Most of my career has been doing two and three different shows a year just to make it through the year, just to make the money just to qualify for insurance,” Bernardin said. “The apprenticeship that television used to offer seems to have evaporated.